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... pure and un- mixed result of inductive research . " * " A Manual of Chemistry . " Fifth edition . Revised by H. Bence Jones and A. W. Hofman . Unfortunately for the Professor , he has placed the arguments Materialism . 2 I.
... pure and un- mixed result of inductive research . " * " A Manual of Chemistry . " Fifth edition . Revised by H. Bence Jones and A. W. Hofman . Unfortunately for the Professor , he has placed the arguments Materialism . 2 I.
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... results have been obtained , we must withhold our belief in the molecular doctrines of the present day , how- ever eloquently and ably they may be advocated . I confess that we can no more explain the nature of vital than of any other ...
... results have been obtained , we must withhold our belief in the molecular doctrines of the present day , how- ever eloquently and ably they may be advocated . I confess that we can no more explain the nature of vital than of any other ...
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... result of physical force , why is it that a man , cæteris paribus , does not live for ever , and why is the span of his existence limited to threescore years and ten ? To say the least of it , the term vital force , which so many of the ...
... result of physical force , why is it that a man , cæteris paribus , does not live for ever , and why is the span of his existence limited to threescore years and ten ? To say the least of it , the term vital force , which so many of the ...
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... results of organic memory . The law of hereditary transmission cannot be disputed , but the evolutionist carries it to a fabulous length , and in the case of man he asserts that the human brain is a register of " infinitely numerous ...
... results of organic memory . The law of hereditary transmission cannot be disputed , but the evolutionist carries it to a fabulous length , and in the case of man he asserts that the human brain is a register of " infinitely numerous ...
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... result of bodily functions , as if they were secretions from the brain , like those of the liver or kidneys . They have various un- intelligible modes of describing the phenomena of the mind . Its operations are spoken of by some as the ...
... result of bodily functions , as if they were secretions from the brain , like those of the liver or kidneys . They have various un- intelligible modes of describing the phenomena of the mind . Its operations are spoken of by some as the ...
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Página 9 - Is there not a temptation to close to some extent with Lucretius, when he affirms that' Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods'?
Página 25 - You cannot satisfy the human understanding in its demand for logical continuity between molecular processes and the phenomena of consciousness. This is a rock on which materialism must inevitably split whenever it pretends to be a complete philosophy of life.
Página 39 - organized register of infinitely numerous experiences received during the evolution of life, or rather during the evolution of that series of organisms through which the human organism has been reached.
Página 42 - Can we pause here ? We break a magnet and find two poles in each of its fragments. We continue the process of breaking, but, however small the parts, each carries with it, though enfeebled, the polarity of the whole. And when we can break no longer, we prolong the intellectual vision to the polar molecules. Are we not urged...
Página 25 - ... your dead nitrogen atoms, your dead phosphorus atoms, and all the other atoms, dead as grains of shot, of which the brain is formed. Imagine them separate and sensationless ; observe them running together and forming all imaginable combinations. This, as a purely mechanical process, is seea-ble by the mind. But can you see, or dream, or in any way imagine, how out of that mechanical act, and from these individually dead atoms, sensation, thought, and emotion are to rise...
Página 65 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.